Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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I move amendment No. 71:

In page 85, to delete lines 7 to 9.

This is an important amendment. There is a number of grounds in the legislation on which the commission can decide not to investigate a complaint and one of them is that there were alternative means of redress available to the complainant. That is far too vague. It does not outline those alternatives and it is a very broad area which a commission can seek not to investigate. My concern is not just that the commission would desire not to investigate a complaint but because of resources, the latitude in which the commission would function would shrink very quickly and, therefore, by default this might be used to explain that shrinkage.